Search results for "Amerikka"
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The immigrant's return : Italian male and female images in five American novels
2001
Horjuva hierarkia : kolonisaatio ja kerronnan rakenne J. M. Coetzeen romaanissa Life and times of Michael K
1998
Racial discourse in James Baldwin's Blues for Mister Charlie (1964) : drama and the hegemonic struggle
2012
A market of accents
2009
This paper describes the cultural semantics of internet courses in American accent. Such courses are offered by corporate providers to specific groups of customers: people in search of success in the globalized business environment. The core of such courses is an order of indexicality which stresses uniformity and homogeneity, producing an invisible accent that replaces existing ‘foreign’ (i.e. authentic, biographic) accents. It is a new form of commodified dialectology, which differs quite substantially from common state and academic attitudes towards dialects and accents. The procedures used by such private providers are instances of language policing aimed at the infinitely small stuff o…
Kansakunnan ääni : Yhdysvaltain presidenttien virkaanastujaispuheet poliittisen puheen genrenä George Washingtonista Barack Obamaan
2012
George Washington, Yhdysvaltain ensimmäinen presidentti, piti virkaanastujaispuheensa 30.4.1789. Washingtonin seuraajat ovat neljän vuoden välein pitäneet oman virkaanastujaispuheensa tuoden esille niitä kysymyksiä, arvoja ja tavoitteita, joita tuleva presidentti pitää tärkeinä kansakunnan tulevaisuuden kannalta. Tietyssä mielessä virkaanastujaispuheet symboloivat kansakunnan äänen ilmentymistä Yhdysvaltain politiikassa, sillä niissä käytetty retoriikka heijastelee yhteiskunnan tilaa. Kansakunnan ääni kohdistuu myös retorisesti Yhdysvaltain historian hyödyntämiseen sekä kansakunnan tulevaisuuden visioimiseen. Yhdysvaltain presidenttien virkaanastujaispuheet ovat yhdistäneet amerikkalaisia a…
"I have a dream" : a material package on African American history and culture with a focus on communicative competence
2011
Antaa mennä vaan
2020
Race, Environment, and Crisis : Hurricane Camille and the Politics of Southern Segregation
2022
In August 1969 Hurricane Camille hit the Mississippi coast. We argue that the disaster caused by the Hurricane was an outcome of the entanglement between human and non-human agents. As a non-human agent, Hurricane Camille thrust the prevailing socio-economic situation in the segregationist South into the spotlight, with all its political and cultural ramifications – much to the annoyance of the local political elite that had long sought to isolate southern politics from civil rights and the desegregation agenda. Consequently, it (re)invigorated and furnished the civil rights movement and the politics defining that era with new arguments and approaches that would have been impossible to dev…
Dementia in former amateur and professional contact sports participants : population-based cohort study, systematic review, and meta-analysis
2023
Background Although there is growing evidence that former professional athletes from sports characterised by repetitive head impact subsequently experience an elevated risk of dementia, the occurrence of this disorder in retired amateurs, who represent a larger population, is uncertain. The present meta-analysis integrates new results from individual-participant analyses of a cohort study of former amateur contact sports participants into a systematic review of existing studies of retired professionals and amateurs. Methods The cohort study comprised 2005 male retired amateur athletes who had competed internationally for Finland (1920–1965) and a general population comparison group of 1386 …